John flushed slightly, though he knew the remark wasn't meant as a rebuke. If even Belial hadn't guessed that his ties to Lucifer ran so deep, there was really no way anyone else could have known. Didn't make him feel any better about not forseeing the possibility, though. Or about succumbing to a fucking flashback, of all things. What in blazes had come over him? If he'd let the bad shit get to him that way right along, he wouldn't have lasted a year in this business.

"Not that. This," he muttered, gesturing with the soul-gem. "None of us saw the other thing coming."